9:00am - 1:00pm :: PLENARY SESSIONS - LIVE SIMULCAST FROM THE BIONEERS CONFERENCE

Traditional Welcome to his people's ancestral lands by Chairman Greg Sarris of Federated Indians of

Graton Rancheria, Coast Miwok/Southern Pomo Nations.

Opening remarks from Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons, founders of Bioneers.

BROCK DOLMAN :: Basins of Relations: A Reverential Rehydration Revolution

Permaculturist and watershed wizard Brock Dolman shows how the future lifeboat we’ll need is shaped exactly like our local watershed. He wields his dazzling poetics to tell us how we can engage with the spirit of Planet Water, create waterliterate human settlement patterns, and regenerate ecological integrity and social resiliency to prepare for the climate changes ahead.

KARI FULTON :: Youth Redefining Environmentalism, Reclaiming our Futures

This inspiring Brower Youth Award winner and national campus campaign coordinator for the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative describes how the Youth Climate Movement is creating a more unified and inclusive environmental movement for the 21st century.

JACK HIDARY :: From Small Steps to the Energy Revolution

How do we move rapidly from 1% solar and wind energy in the U.S. to 50%? To 100%? Is this just a fantasy? One of the nation’s leading technology entrepreneurs, co-founder of SmartTransportation.org and chairman of Americans for CleanEnergy.org, explains what we have to do politically, economically and socially to realize that necessary revolution.

[Introduction by Alaskan Indigenous activist Dune Lankard]

SARAH JAMES :: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change: Report from the Arctic

The revered Gwich’in Elder from Alaska, who has won many awards for her work to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling, including the Goldman Environmental Prize, depicts how her people are being severely impacted on the front lines of rapid climate change, and how they are responding.

MICHAEL POLLAN :: In Defense of Food: The Omnivore's Solution

The leading American thinker about our relationship to food, Michael Pollan is the author of such seminal classics as In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of Desire. He explores what the industrialization of food and agriculture has meant for our health and happiness as eaters. He surveys the landscape of the growing national movement to redesign the food system.

____________________________________________________________________________________ 1:00pm - 2:30pm :: LUNCH

2:45pm - 5:30pm :: LIVE SPEAKERS IN LOS ANGELES / AFTERNOON SESSIONS

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION IN LOS ANGELES

HILARY NORTON :: Executive Director, FastLA.org

Hilary Norton's career spans nearly two decades in public policy, community development, land use, and transportation planning. Ms. Norton's work for Mayor Tom Bradley, Councilmembers Mark Ridley-Thomas, Richard Alarcon, Richard Alatorre, and Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, Central City Association, and in the private sector provided multiple perspectives on Los Angeles' transportation system and its importance to our future mobility, economy and quality of life.www.fastla.org

RUSSELL VARE :: Renewable Energy Analyst: Los Angeles Community College District

A self-proclaimed environmentalist and tech-geek, Russell Vare has dedicated his work to renewable energy since 2003. He has worked in both policy development and implementation of sustainable technologies, including solar PV and hydrogen fuel cells. He received his Master's in Public Policy at UCLA and a BA in Economics from UC Santa Barbara.www.laccdbuildsgreen.org

STEVEN CANNISTRACI :: Head of Mechanical Support and Development Section, City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation [LADOT], Transit Bureau:

Mr. Cannistraci has over 30 years of experience in vehicle maintenance, design, fabrication and procurement. He is a passionate supporter and facilitator of innovative technologies and designs; including leading-edge transit vehicle hybrid-electric drive systems. He has conceptually designed such systems since the beginning of his career and led the Department into demonstrating such technology since the mid-1990's. www.ladottransit.com

DENNIS ALLEN :: Executive Director: LAStreetCar.org

Allen has an extensive background in real estate development and project management, having previously worked as a Director of Acquisitions and Development for locally based Kor Group, where he was instrumental in redeveloping many of Downtown Los Angeles' historic landmarks into mixed-use residential and retail projects. Allen is a graduate of USC and longtime resident of the Los Angeles region. www.lastreetcar.org

ALEX FAY :: LA Mayor's Office, Clean Tech/Zip Car Liaison

Alex Fay serves as the Clean Tech Liaison in the Office of mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. In this capacity, he works to stimulate the local economy by developing Loss Angeles as a global capital for the research, production and deployment of environmentally friendly technologies.

NURIT KATZ :: UCLA Sustainability Coordinator

As UCLA's first Sustainability Coordinator Nurit Katz is working to foster partnerships among academic, research, and operational departments at UCLA to further sustainability on campus and train the leaders of tomorrow. Before starting in this position she founded the Sustainable Resource Center to provide resources for the community on sustainability and then served as President of the Graduate Students Association and helped to develop new interdisciplinary graduate program-Leaders in Sustainability. Her essay on transit-oriented development was published in the UCLA Anderson Forecast's "Solutions for our City". Nurit holds and MBA and a Masters in Public Policy from UCLA.

ERIC MANN :: Director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles and a founder of the Bus Riders Union.

The Strategy Center is a "think tank/act tank" that trains organizers and initiates high visibility environmental justice, mass transportation, and civil rights campaigns. The BRU is the largest mass transportation group in the U.S. Mann has been a civil rights, anti-Vietnam war, labor, and environmental organizer for over four decades. In 2001, he was a delegate to the U.N. World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa and returned to South Africa in 2002 as part of a Strategy Center delegation to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannensburg. Mann is the co-host of the weekly KPFK radio show, Voices from the Frontlines. He has published more than 200 articles and has written six books. www.thestrategycenter.org

DENNY ZANE :: Move LA

Denny Zane is the Executive Director of Move LA, an organization working to coalesce environmental, labor, business, community and student leaders and organizations to ensure sufficient, and robust transit system for Los Angeles County. Move LA played a key role in moving Measure R, which provided for a half-cent sales tax increase for transportation purposes, onto the Los Angeles County ballot and will generate nearly $40 billion in new transportation dollars over 30 years. Zane is also formerly the Mayor and for 12 years a city councilmember in Santa Monica, California, and formerly Executive Director of Coalition for Clean Air. www.movela.org

5:30pm - 7:30pm :: COCKTAIL RECEPTION hosted by:

7:30pm - 11:30pm :: HIGHLIGHTS + FILM

SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE BIONEERS PLENARIES

FUEL :: Directed by Joshua Tickell

Record high oil prices, global warming, and an insatiable demand for energy: these issues will be the catalyst for heated debates and positive change for many years to come. 2008 Sundance award-winning film Fuel exposes shocking connections between the auto industry and the government, while exploring alternative energies such as solar, wind, electricity and non-food-based biofuels. Josh Tickell and his Veggie Van take us on the road as we discover the pros and cons of biofuels, how America's addiction to oil is destroying the U.S. economy and how green energy can save us, but only if we act now. www.thefuelfilm.com

9:00am - 1:00pm :: PLENARY SESSIONS - LIVE SIMULCAST FROM THE BIONEERS CONFERENCE

Opening Remarks from Kenny Ausubel

Clip from Hidden Beauty introduced by filmmaker Louis Schwartzberg

JASON McLENNAN :: Living Buildings - The Future of Architecture

This leading figure in the global green architecture movement challenges us to imagine and demand buildings that operate as elegantly and efficiently as the living structures nature creates. As CEO of Cascadia Green Building Council, author of the Living Building Challenge and co-creator of Pharos (the most advanced building material rating system in North America), he shows breathtaking examples from the worldwide Challenge underway to design buildings that meet or exceed nature’s ecosystem services.

LILY YEH :: The Rwanda Healing Project: Bringing Hope through Art and Creative Action

This internationally celebrated artist works to bring the transformative power of art to impoverished and war-torn communities around the world to foster community empowerment, improve the physical environment, promote economic development and preserve indigenous art and culture. She portrays a heartbreakingly beautiful project (described in Terry Tempest Williams’ latest book Finding Beauty in a Broken World) exemplifying how art can begin to heal the environment as well as the hearts and minds of traumatized people.

JENSINE LARSEN :: The Electric Pulse of Women Transforming Our World

Across the Earth, courageous women leaders from rural villages to corporate suites are connecting to solve global problems. The visionary founder of World Pulse, a global media source covering world issues through women’s eyes, shares her journey building an interactive global media enterprise to unleash the power of women’s voices, and shows how we can participate in this ongoing revolution.

Marin County Award

Charles McGlashan of the Marin County Board of Supervisors and Jim Farley, director of Marin’s Cultural and Visitors’ Services, will present a Resolution honoring the influence Bioneers has had on the county’s green innovations.

ARTURO SANDOVAL :: Changing the Axis: Drawing from Mexican and Latin American Cultures to Create a Sustainable Future

The Euro-American ethic which has dominated the cultural and economic landscape of the Americas for hundreds of years has had some positive effects on the Western hemisphere, but its total domination of the commons has also stifled equally valuable ethics that existed prior to the emergence of the U.S. One of New Mexico’s most prominent civic leaders explores how we can find a balance between these older and newer attitudes to land and life to create a viable future for us all.

Dr. ANDREW WEIL :: Environmental Health, Environmental Medicine

Human health and environmental health are inextricably interconnected, yet the education and training of doctors and health professionals largely ignore the subject. America’s most prominent “Integrative” MD and medical reformer, Dr. Andrew Weil says in his new book on reinventing the American health care system that it’s imperative to mobilize the health-care community as an ally in the environmental movement. The alliance could overcome the influence of vested interests that still block the legislative and policy changes we need to protect the health of people and planet.

1:00pm - 2:30pm :: LUNCH

2:45pm - 5:30pm :: LIVE SPEAKERS IN LOS ANGELES / AFTERNOON SESSIONS

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES IN LOS ANGELES

CHARLES EISENSTEIN :: The Ascent of Humanity

Charles Eisenstein is a healer, traveler, teacher, writer, integrated holistic visionary and evolutionary proactivist. His recent book 'The Ascent of Humanity' identifies the core of the perceived human challenge: separation. Eisenstein challenges us to collectively create a new evolutionary path, acting from the heart and mind on behalf of future generations, now. www.ascentofhumanity.com

LARRY SANTOYO, EarthFlow Design Works :: Permaculture for Humanity

Larry Santoyo is an artist, land use planner and green business consultant. He is among the most experienced Permaculture Designers and Educators in the US and has taught environmental design at colleges and universities nationwide, including UC Berkeley and California State Polytechnic University. Larry is Director of EarthFlow Design Works, a community planning and design firm that integrates economic development strategies with ecological systems management. www.earthflow.com

ASHLEY ZARELLA HAND, LEED AP, ASSOC AIA :: Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Sustainability Committee

The Sustainability Committee of the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council is dedicated to empowering the Downtown community to create a culture of sustainability.

We will work with the community to increase accessibility to existing programs and services through outreach and public education. We will identify and create opportunities for new programming and partnerships to meet our goals for a more livable, affordable, and efficient urban center. www.downtownsustainability.com

WOODROW W. CLARK MA3, Ph.D.

Dr. Clark, a long-time advocate for the environment, is an author, lecturer and advisor specializing in renewable energy and sustainable communities. In 2007, Dr. Clark received a Nobel Peace Prize, along with his colleagues of United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for his work as the first Research Director for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, establishing the economic and technical basis for renewable energy technologies to be commercialized in developing nations.

In 2004, he founded Clark Strategic Partners, a consulting firm using his political-economic expertise in order to guide and advise clients on how to implement sustainable development.

Prior to launching Clark Strategic Partners, Dr. Clark was Senior Advisor on Renewable Energy, Emerging Technologies, and Finance to California Governor Gray Davis from 2000 to 2003. www.clarkstrategicpartners.net

5:30pm - 7:30pm :: COCKTAIL RECEPTION Hosted by:

Delectable Sound Selections provided by DJ JUN www.JunAntazo.com

7:30pm - 11:30pm :: HIGHLIGHTS + FILM

SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS OF THE BIONEERS PLENARIES

"WHAT ABOUT ME?" :: Directed by Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman

Q&A with Duncan Bridgeman after the Film

Following the success of their first double Grammy nominated film & album "What About Me?" is the latest offering from 1Giant Leap. This visionary project took Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman to over 50 locations as they explore through music, the complexities of human nature on a global scale. The film aims to reveal how we are all connected through creativity and beliefs, but most of all through our collective insanity.

Covering universal topics such as God, Sex, Death and Money, "What About Me?" Features and incredibly diverse collection of collaborators from Noam Chomsky to Will Young, Maxi Jazz to TIm Robbins, Billy Connolly to Michael Stipe, Eckhart Tolle to Baaba Mall, among many others.

"What About Me?" is a poignant emotional and entertaining time capsule of humanity at its most inspirational. www.whataboutme.tv

PERFORMING LIVE ON SATURDAY

UNITED VOICES FOR PEACE : Kid's Choir www.UnitedVoicesforPeace.com

MIKE THE POET :: Spoken Word www.myspace.com/MikeThePoet

RICH FERGUSON :: Spoken Word www.RichRant.com

ADAM YASMIN :: Cajon Drum www.AdamYasmin.com

9:00am - 1:00pm :: PLENARY SESSIONS - LIVE SIMULCAST FROM THE BIONEERS CONFERENCE

Opening remarks by Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers

JOANNA MACY :: The Hidden Promise of Our Dark Age: Discovering Our Wisdom, Strength and Beauty in the Midst of Crisis

If we can free ourselves from the delusions and dependencies bred by the “industrial growth society,” something wonderful can happen. One of the great activists and spiritual teachers of our era brings a hopeful message: If we manage to steer clear of panic, we may well find at last the wild power of our creativity and solidarity.

MARI MARGIL :: Who Speaks for the Trees? Driving Nature's Rights into Law

The associate director of the Community Environmental Defense Fund (CELDF) describes the inspiring, groundbreaking work she and CELDF are doing to recognize Rights of Nature in law in both the U.S. and Ecuador, which recently became the world’s first nation to enshrine such rights in its constitution.

CHIEF ALMIR NARAYAMOGA SURUI :: Biocultural Conservation in the Amazon: How an Amazon Tribe Has Combined Traditional Knowledge

Chief Almir, 32, a tribal chief, environmentalist and political activist, portrays his and his people’s struggles to survive by protecting their culture and rainforest since they made First Contact with the Western world in 1969. He surveys the history of the Amazon, its situation today and the unusual partnership he forged with Google to use Google Earth’s high-tech tools to help his Surui people tell their story and protect their forests and culture.

JEROME RINGO :: The Color of Green: The Next Inconvenient Truth

Nearly $116 billion will be spent over the next two years developing clean fuels, modernizing rail transit, pursuing energy efficiency and developing electric vehicles. One of the nation’s foremost environmental leaders says we must ensure that the jobs created in that effort are good jobs available to all Americans.

His perspective comes from originally working as a petrochemical worker in Louisiana’s “cancer alley” for 20 years, to becoming chairman of the National Wildlife Federation (the first African-American to head a major conservation organization), and now president of the groundbreaking Apollo Alliance.

ANNIE LEONARD :: The Story of Stuff

A key part of the American dream is centered on accumulating ever more, and better, stuff. Yet all the stuff in our lives is taking an enormous toll on the environment, public health, equity, personal happiness and even our sense of citizenship and democracy. Acclaimed filmmaker and Internet phenomenon Annie Leonard exposes the often hidden costs and provides a hopeful vision for moving beyond the age of Stuff.

_____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 1:00pm - 2:30pm :: LUNCH

2:45pm - 5:30pm :: LIVE SPEAKERS IN LOS ANGELES / AFTERNOON SESSIONS

LA WATER

ON THE EDGE

A performance film shot on the Los Angeles River during a group Kayak expedition in 2008 down the entire 51 mile run of the River. Three groups working in their respective media exploring the question: "Is our civilization on the brink of collapse or on the brink of a dramatic switch to sustainability?". A 6 minute film on the festival circuit, which is enticing, gentle, dramatic and beautiful.

INTRO BY JOEL SHAPIRO FOUNDER OF ELECTRIC LODGE

ROBERT ESTRADA :: LADWP: Water Conservation, Urban Water Demands

KATHRYN CHARLTON :: Agricultural Water management Council

Kathryn Charlton is the Assistant Executive Director of the Agrigultural Water Management Council. The Council is recognized as the lead organization overseeing agricultural water, supplier water management planning and the advancement of agricultural water management in California.

ROCK THE BOAT :: Trailer for the documentary of the LA River Expedition 2008

GEORGE WOLFE :: Canoeist/Kayaker, Leader of the LA River Expedition 2008

Since arriving in LA, George has been at the epicenter of California satire, via founding and running The LaLa Times [dubbed "The Onion for LA" by the Los Angeles Times]. Having been an avid canoeist/kayaker in the Northwest prior to his arrival in Southern California, he quickly found himself to be a fish out of water. In time, he found the LA River to be a madcap playground for his boating interests and, in 2008, was amused to find himself an unwitting activist in a Clean Water Act battle through his simple curiosity and determination to navigate the whole LA River. Thus began his more conscious passion for the subject of water. He also is mostly made out of water.

LOS ANGELES COMMUNITIES IN ACTION

LOS ANGELES COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION

Founded in 1998, Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition [LACBC] works to build a better, more bike-able Los Angeles County. LACBC is the only nonprofit, membership-based organization working exclusively for the millions of bicyclists in Los Angeles County. Through advocacy, education and outreach, Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition brings together the diverse bicycling community in a united mission to make the entire L.A. region a safe and enjoyable place to ride. www.LA-Bike.org

GROWCOLOGY

The mission of Growcology is to collaborate, motivate, and educate community members and organizations on living more sustainably. Growcology supports and promotes the green movement by offering workshops, events, hands-on education, and various forms of media. Growcology strives to create global green initiatives by uniting organizations and individuals committed to promoting personal wellbeing and a healthy planet. www.growcology.com

LOS ANGELES ECO VILLAGE

Reinventing how we live in cities by demonstrating higher quality living patterns at lower environmental impacts. www.laecovillage.org

5:30pm - 7:30pm :: COCKTAIL RECEPTION hosted by:

Delectable Sound Selections provided by DJ JUN www.JunAntazo.com

7:30pm - 11:30pm :: HIGHLIGHTS + FILM

SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE BIONEERS PLENARIES

VANISHING OF THE BEES :: Directed by Maryam Henein and George Langworthy

Q&A with the Directors after the Film

The Vanishing of the Bees unfolds as a dramatic tale of science and mystery, illuminating the extraordinary crisis of colony collapse disorder and its greater meaning about the relationship between humankind and mother earth. The full length feature film educates viewers about the importance of bees and informs people about ways they can help bring the bees back. The filmmakers hope to screen Vanishing of the Bees around the world, and an educational version of the films will also be made available to schools across the country. www.vanishingbees.co.uk

PERFORMING LIVE

MIRANDA RONDEAU :: Frame Drummer, Singer, Song Writer, Musician

www.myspace.com/MirandaRondeau